The Picture That Started a Family Tradition

OK, so here I am pretty jazzed about Christmas in 1981. It was a good year.

I was 5 years-old, about this close to learning how to ride a bike, and all my Barbie shoes were accounted for. Little did I know standing there in my footed pajamas that 17 years later my husband would discover this picture and make it “a thing”.

Just as my dad captured the excitement of the Christmas season with me in 1981, I’m hoping to do the same with my kids. I love how one old picture had the power to create such a fun tradition in our family. I hope one day to have an entire collection of excited Christmas pictures with my grown sons and their children!

Do you have family picture traditions?

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